Boris Becker already has a new job after being released from prison where they wanted to kill him in the UK

Reinvent yourself or, rather, reintegrate yourself, as applied in prison slang for those seeking to re-enter society after serving a sentence. That’s what German is about Boris Becker, former world tennis number 1, and who was released last December after serving half of the 15 months in a UK prison for which he was sentenced for hiding his monetary and real estate assets to declare bankruptcy and not pay their debts. In the coming weeks, he will be one of the faces of a European channel’s broadcasts at the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the season.

The three-time Wimbledon champion, expelled in Germany, will comment on the central match of each day Eurosportand will have its own ‘Matchball Becker’ program to analyze everything that happens at Melbourne Park from next January 16th.

The clarification made by the German newspaper Bildwas that Becker, 55, will not be traveling to Oceania, but will come from a studio in the city of Monaco.

“I am delighted that Boris Becker is joining our Eurosport team from the Australian Open. Since 2017 Boris has been an integral part of tennis broadcasts on Eurosport”announced Jochen Gundel, one of the managers of the German branch of Warner Bros Discovery, the parent company of the chain.

a real nightmare

The German served eight months of his sentence for bankruptcy fraud at Huntercombe Prison in Oxfordshire.

Becker was sentenced to two and a half years. He spent three months in what is considered to be England’s strictest prison, HMP Wandsworth, before being transferred to Huntercombe, where he spent the last five.

Boris has benefited from the so-called “fast-track” system, which provides for the extradition to the country of origin of a detainee under certain conditions.

He returned to his country despite having served half of the minimum 15 months in prison to which he was sentenced and now he doesn’t know if he will stay in Germany or if he will go to the United States or Qatar.

Last year 1,136 foreign prisoners in the UK benefited from this reduced sentence, although in Becker’s case he has lived in Britain since 2012.

However, the German never applied for British citizenship and for this reason he was able to return to Germany, where he will serve his sentence in freedom, even though he will not be able to return to the United Kingdom.

While locked up, Becker admitted he came to think he was going to go insane: “I had two big concerns, the shared cell, I was completely terrified.”

“There was also a shower. The movies didn’t help me, when I saw the soap fall on the floor. The prison was full, very dirty, extremely dangerous, with murderers, rapists, drug dealers, all that kind of stuff, and you have to be careful because the guards won’t do it,” he added.

The former world number 1 said, among other things, that he had received threats of rape from other inmates and that in October one wanted to kill him and explained how he would do it.

“A prisoner named John told me that if I didn’t do some things he would kill me, which I confirmed with others,” the 55-year-old told German TV channel Sat1.

He also said it was three other inmates who “saved his life.” “Luckily I had the support of those three companions and then he apologized to me”, he added through tears for the prisoner who threatened him.